Capabilities
Analytic Capabilities
Mass Spectrometry
- Shimadzu GC-MS System
- Shimadzu HPLC-MS System
- Thermo-Fisher HPLC MS/MS System
X-RAY-Diffraction Spectroscopy
- Oxford Diffraction XCalibur 3 Single Crystal Diffractometer
- 4-circle kappa platform
- Enhance Mo radiation
- Full safety cabinet
- CrysAlisPro (data collection and processing software)
- X-ray tube water chiller
- Sapphire CCD Chiller
- Oxford Cryosystem (liquid N2)
- STOE Powder Diffractometer
Raman Spectroscopy
- Bruker MultiRAM FT-Raman
- fitted with a liquid nitrogen cooled germanium detector and a Nd:YAG laser (λ = 1064 nm)
Infrared Spectroscopy
- Perkin Elmer Spectrum One
- FT-IR with CsI beamsplitter, range 7800 to 220 cm-1 with Spectrum for Windows Software
- Perkin Elmer 983G despersive, stand alone IR, range 4500 to 400 cm-1
- Fittings: high temperature gascell
DTA (Differential Thermal Analysis)
- OZM, DTA 551-EX
- designed for explosive compounds
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
- Mettler-Toledo DSC822e
- Device accessories:
- Autosampler with 34 positions
- Intracooler Julabo FT900
- Temperature range: -75—630 °C
- Temperature program: Freely programmable
- Heating rate: variable (0.1 Kmin-1 to 200 Kmin-1)
- Crucibles: 40 µL Aluminum
- Purge gas: Nitrogen at 30 mL/min
- Minimum sample amount: 0.3 mg (depends on sample)
- Software: Mettler-Toledo STARe Software V16.20
TGA (Thermogravimetric Analysis)
- Perkin Elmer, TGA4000
- S/W KIT TA MGR SUITE SGNL USER V11
- Polyscience Chiller
Melting Point Apparatus
- Büchi B-540
Bombcalorimetry
- Parr 6200 isoperibol bomb calorimeter
- Fittings: 1104 Oxygen combustion bomb
Detonation calorimetry
- OZM DCA Calorimeter
Detonation Chamber KV-250
- can be used for a number of various experimental performance, sensitivity and stability tests of energetic materials involving their full-scale detonations.
- The chamber can further be used as a safe temporary storage vessel for newly synthesized and potentially unstable explosive samples, for safe destruction of explosive wastes or special applications (such as explosive forming of metals).
High-Speed Recording
- up to 2 million frames per seconds
Performance tests
- Detonation velocity
- Detonation pressure
- Pressure-time measurements of confined explosions of condensed explosives, explosive dusts or aerosols
- Temperature(heat flow)- time measurements of confined explosions
- Brisance by lead block compression test (Hess test)
- Brisance by Kast's method
- Brisance by plate dent test
- Brisance by sand test
- Explosive power by lead block expansion test (Trauzl test)
- Mass velocity of detonation products by flash X-Ray photography
- Small-scale fragmentation test
- Propagation of the shock wave using high-speed cameras
Sensitivity tests
- BAM drophammer (Impact 0.1 j - 100 J)
- BAM friction tester (Friction 0.1 N - 360N)
- OZM XSparc (0.001mJ - 10 J), www.ozm.cz
- Koenen Test
- Time-Pressure Test
Further Sensitivity tests
- Sensitivity to shock wave by small-scale gap test
- Sensitivity to heat by slow cook-off test
- Large-scale electrostatic discharge sensitivity test
- Sensitivity to electron beam and laser
- Transmission of detonation between charges
- Sensitivity of initiation by detonator
- Critical diameter test
- Deflagration to detonation transition test
Particle Size
- Laser Diffraction
- DNS
Electron Microscopy
- JEOL device
Stability tests
- Large-scale long-term stability test
- Bergmann-Junk Tester
- Vacuum Stability Test
Pycnometry (Density Measurement)
Quantachrome Gas Pycnometer Ultrapyc 1200e
- Helium gas
- three different cell volumes
UV/VIS Spectroscopy
- Perkin-Elmer
Karl Fischer Titrando (Water Content)
- Metrohm
Department Devices:
NMR (Nucklear Magnetc Resonances)
90 MHz - 500 MHz
Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS)